A former attorney’s quest to undo his insider-trading conviction because his lawyer failed to make a cutting-edge legal argument on appeal has been rejected by a federal judge.
Southern District Judge Richard Sullivan in U.S. vs. Goffer, 10-cr-00056, turned aside the petition of former lawyer Michael Kimelman, who said he suffered from ineffective assistance of counsel on his appeal in the Galleon Group insider-trading scandal.
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